ACT scores

This is a discussion on ACT scores within the A Brief History of Cprogramming.com forums, part of the Community Boards category; I just got my ACT scores in the mail and I was wondering how they compare to others on this ...

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it was weird, first time i didn't finish a test, it was on the SATs and the ACTs.

1220 SAT
27 composite ACT

I figured they're good enough, I'll go to whichever college accepts me. I was accepted at some of the top universities in the nation, ranking in engineering, so I guess they were good. I could have done better probably, but I got into college, so... I took the SATs once, ACTs twice. My grades are pretty high and my course load is extremely challenging, at least that's what people tell me, wasn't that hard though. Depending on the college, grades and course load may be considered more so than test scores, but test scores are still taken quite some in admissions.

Originally posted by Procyon The maximum in any category is 36. The average is set to 21, so anything above that is at least decent if not great. A "good" score would be somewhere in the middle; maybe 29 or higher.

ah cool. gotcha.

im looking into sunyit @ utica..i see ur at ithaca..hows it up there? im down in westchester

Do you mean the city, or my university (Cornell)? Ithaca is OK, I guess; not particularly eventful and hard to get around without a car... snows a lot, although I guess most of upstate is like that. Cornell's a great place, certainly; although very selective by the standards of most colleges so you have to have pretty good grades/scores to get in.